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paramnesia
[ par-am-nee-zhuh ]
noun
- Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.
paramnesia
/ ˌpæræmˈniːzɪə /
noun
- psychiatry a disorder of the memory or the faculty of recognition in which dreams may be confused with reality
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Origin of paramnesia1
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Wigand and Maudsley think they see in paramnesia a simultaneous functioning of both relations.
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Indeed, Krpelin asserts that paramnesia occurs only under normal circumstances.
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It will perhaps be proper not to reduce all the phenomena of paramnesia to the same conditions.
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It may be that Leibnitz meant paramnesia with his perceptiones insensibiles.
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